Edward Rowan FINNEGAN

(1905-1971)

FINNEGAN, Edward Rowan, a
Representative from Illinois; born in Chicago, Ill., June 5, 1905;
attended the St. Ritas, Northwestern, and DePaulus schools, Loyola
University, and Northwestern University School of Law; DePaul
University School of Law, LL.B., 1930; commenced the practice of
law in Chicago, Ill., in 1931; assistant State’s attorney,
Cook County; assistant corporation counsel, city of Chicago;
unsuccessful for the Democratic nomination for municipal court
judge in Chicago in 1939; elected as a Democrat to the
Eighty-seventh and Eighty-eighth Congresses and served from January
3, 1961, until his resignation, December 6, 1964; had been
renominated for the Eighty-ninth Congress but withdrew, having been
appointed judge, Circuit Court of Cook County, Ill., December 7,
1964, and served in this position until his death, February 2,
1971, in Chicago, Ill.; interment in All Saints Cemetery, Des
Plaines, Ill.

Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present